Katrine Skovsgaard

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Raadvad 40
2800 Lyngby
+44 (0)7 30 81 61 981
kat@katrineskovsgaard.net

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Hi, I'm Katrine!

Who are you?

I am an artist, co-creator, workshop facilitator and collaborator.
I'm interested in the spaces between us, how we share or, more often, do not. My art practice investigates ways to reveal subjective sensory experience, especially those personal experiences we do not talk about and those we do not notice. My research is located at the crossroads of shame, chronic pain, sharing and mutual radical care.
I often work with other people to find new languages for experiences that we find hard to share. In this piece of writing, I invite you to reflect on a few questions from my practice.

For years, I hesitated to share my story.
What do you share with others, and how?
What would you hesitate to share?

The initial reluctance I felt about sharing, when faced head-on, became a catalyser for not only my own, but for many other people's sharing stories of vulnerability. This enquiry started with a willingness to ask questions I didn't know the answers to. The work instigated conversations I'd never had before. Through my art, I now intend to spark more of these conversations, intimate moments, sharing, and most importantly, the feeling of being safe to do so.

When and where do you feel safe?
What do you imagine the tactile surface of safety feels like in your hands?
Memory reveals what touch already knows.

I currently explore notions of intimacy through touch-based art and radical sharing narratives in text and sound. For example, in my piece, Touch, a tapestry installed as a semi-circle creates a room-within-a-room, a calm environment to listen to an audio component with a choir of stories sharing emotional or challenging experiences with hands. Maybe these stories bring up experiences of your own?

Would you share these stories with a stranger? Or a friend?
It can be hard to collectivise and confront the loneliness that some experiences give us.
How do you ask for help in your life? Who are your allies?

I examine how we can provide embodied safety for each other and how that might 'materialise', emotionally as well as physically. Dealing collectively with the challenging aspects of being human is an important and revolutionary practice that current, interpersonal and social systems and structures do not support. I want to bring about the world that emerges when we come together around the inherently tough and awkward experiences of being human.

How can WE start to think about doing this?

CV

Uddannelse

2019–21

2010–16

Praktikforløb, residencyophold, sommerskoler etc.

2018-19

2017

2016

2015

2013-15

2012

2009–10

2009

Priser

2017

2016

2009

Censurerede udstillinger

2017

2016

2015

2013

  • Nordjysk Censureret 2013, Dronninglund Kunstcenter, Dronninglund, DK

2011

  • Nordjysk Censureret 2011, Dronninglund Kunstcenter, Dronninglund, DK

2009

  • Nordjysk Censureret 2009, Dronninglund Kunstcenter, Dronninglund, DK
  • Student Exhibition, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, AU
  • Pinhole Photography, 6Sixty9Nine Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne, AU

2008

  • Nordjysk censureret 2008, Dronninglund Kunstcenter, Dronninglund, DK

Solo- og duo-udstillinger

2018

2017

2014

Andre udstillinger

2019

2017

2016

2015

2014

  • Art Cinema 3, Habitat, Lahnsgade 48, Odense, DK
  • Habitat Art Café Volume 4 (Performance), Habitat, Lahnsgade 48, Odense, DK
  • Art Cinema 2, Habitat, Lahnsgade 48, Odense, DK
  • Habitat Art Café 3 (udstilling), Habitat, Lahnsgade 48, Odense, DK
  • Art Cinema 1, Habitat, Lahnsgade 48, Odense, DK
  • Habitat Art Café 2 (poesi), Habitat, Lahnsgade 48, Odense, DK

2013

2012

  • 1 Minute – A Matter Of Time, FAA Project Room, DFK, Odense, DK
  • Your Way Travels, Fototrienale.dk–The Good Life, Brandts, Odense, DK
  • School Show 2nd edition, Pantheonsgade 2-4, Odense, DK

2011

  • The Concerned Photographer, Fotografiets Dag, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, DK
  • 1st Annual School Show 2011, Pantheonsgade 2-4, Odense, DK

2010

  • Afgangsudstilling ved BGK Sønderborg, Sønderjyllands Kunstskole, Sønderborg, DK
  • Åbent hus ved Sønderjyllands Kunstskole, Sønderborg, DK

Publications

2019

2018

Året, Maj et fotografisk portræt af København udgivet af Blankt Papir

2016

2015

2014

Tillidshverv

2015–16

2015

  • Medstifter af forlaget Habitat

2013

Støtte

2019

2017

2016–17

2016

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